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Suzanne White's avatar

Sometimes I wonder if certain entrepreneurs have not only a love of money but, even more, an obsession with winning. Some go so far as to need to humiliate their ‘opponents’. Certainly this is a characteristic of trump. I think perhaps we need to be more aware of the psychological hold that the ego has with people whose need to dominate is an end in itself.

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Sally V's avatar

Really quite brilliant. You are unique among so many in communicating all this stuff in “accessible” bites that really track. My single point of confusion in this essay is how you fit MAGA and C-Nationalists into the matrix of the pre-revolutionary coalition. I suppose you mean they are as volatile & irrational as any other sub-group, but from a different angle. And that it won’t matter much when the match is lit because, as you say, the Mob(s) will not quibble over details…

Love the section: [the oligarchs are rejecting even gentle management…]

“not because it threatens their core interests, but because it threatens their total dominance.

Not because it would impoverish them, but because it would make them merely very rich rather than obscenely rich.

Not because it would eliminate capitalism, but because it would make capitalism serve something other than pure wealth accumulation.”

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